Core i5-4690K Processor 3.5 LGA 1150 BX80646I54690K

This CPU is maybe one one the best mid-range CPU to date, even after 2 years. Goodbye, rare i3-4170. I will miss you... For gaming? Jest what it say's, 4 cores, 4 threads, default clock at 3.5GHz and boost all the way up to 4.1GHz, all 4 cores by some overclocking. Even without the overclocking it can run the modern games well. Even pair up with the high end GPU's today's and you have a amazing setup. But if you going to do that I will get a much more bigger PSU for wattage power and some cooling solutions too. It will get very hot under heavy load. For work purposes? Well, for like Microsoft PowerPoint or Word then it will run flawlessly. Light video editing? Runs very well. Light, medium and somewhat heavy applications for working should be fine. But if you want to do an extreme programs like rendering photos at a very high resolution or compressing long videos then I will look foward to an Haswell i7... If you have a 1150 socket motherboard of course. Yea, you can do it with this processor but it's on the "minimum" requirements specs. For the price it's alright... The average price price for these processors is 230 USD - 240 USD. Same as the i5 - 6600K for the new skylake processor that is similar as the 4690K. Which is the 6600K is a bit more faster the 4690K if you look up some benchmarks for the two CPU's. But maybe the price will lower by the end of this year. Maybe... -If you want to upgrade to an i5 and you have an 1150 socket motherboard, get this processor along with a good CPU heat-sink. -Building a mid to high end gaming PC that is under 800 - 1,000 USD, get this processor along with a good CPU heat-sink. -Have a work station that can support haswell's CPU's but the station have an i3 in it and want to upgrade but without spending too much money, Get this CPU... And maybe a heat sink if you want to overclock. There is still some life left for this little guy, thanks Intel!

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I'm not going to spend too much time repeating what everyone else has. The processor is great. Coming from a laptop with 2.7Ghz Turbo, this this is amazingly fast. Even after accidentally touching part of the already applied thermal grease, I still get idle temps of 35 degrees C. Under full load it tops off at about 75 C with the stock cooler. The heatsink/fan in teh box is super easy to install.. you'll have to unwrap the fan wire from the clips, then you just rotate all the tabs to the right and click them into the board. No screwdriver needed. I have noticed if I leave the power management in windows to balanced, you will get better bursting out of this cpu if you are not overclocking. It indeed does clock to 3.85 in task manager, but under high performance mode it remains at a constant 3.65. Installation was easy and so far I have no had any problems. Until I get paid again I have been using integrated graphics. Minecraft works very well on fancy pushed as far as it will go. Warthunder gets 35 fps on medium, and Planetside2 gets good frames if it is set to potato quality. Would definitely recommend. You can't go wrong with Intel. (Another side note, I installled mine in the Gigabyte GA-Z97M-DS3H motherboard with 2x 4GB Kingston Hyperx Fury ram, and had no issues at all.)

Hi guys I normally don't write too many reviews for lack of time, but felt compelled to share about this hardware and the system my son and I built after seeing the result! This review was written on 02/21/2015... We bought the MSI Z 97 gaming motherboard to be the foundation of a new gaming platform for my son using an older Antec full tower case to house it all in. Anyone thinking of building a new system should consider the components listed below. After building the computer and turning on the hardware overclocking feature on the motherboard (OC Genie), loading all the drivers and updating using the MSI updating software, the system is stable, hasn't crashed once, and runs games at blazing speeds. My son says he is getting 100 fps plus from every game he has, while running them at max graphics settings, including a popular new title called "Evolve", where the graphics are just stunning. Some games he is getting over 200fps, wow. I went in and looked at Windows performance module, the 3.5 GHZ CPU we put on the motherboard is overclocked by the hardware to 3.95 GHZ with no stability issues. I have watched him play some of his newer games and the system just makes them look gorgeous, amazing processing power! Be sure to hook up dedicated 4-pin power from your power supply to the corresponding audio power jumper on the motherboard, lights up red when you start the system and looks really cool, supplies dedicated power to the rear audio jacks. One thing to note in the motherboard installation book it does not tell you which position to set the DIP switch to enable powered audio rear jacks until four pages later than where it tells/shows you which jumper to plug in dedicated power, that info should be on same page in manual. Remember the graphics card listed below recommends a minimum 750 watt power supply due to the high wattage of the card. I replace my older 500W power supply just to be safe. This is a huge graphics card so make sure you have a full size case to start your build. Another thing make sure you don't have any power cables in the way of the graphics card fans at startup, double check, the fans most be running. At initial startup we had a power cable that that got in the way of one of the fans, but we caught it right away and re-routed it so the fan would spin. Please note this motherboard does not have any IDE bus ports to support legacy drives, so all your drives must be SATA bus (the modern current bus) to run. On the motherboard there is a handy jumper connector for the front case wires that comes with the motherboard, you just plug the wires into the connector where labeled and then plug the connector into the jumper set on the motherboard, thank you MSI. Also this was the first computer I have built with a Solid State Drive and the data read/write speeds are indeed impressive. We splurged and bought the keyboard listed below, what can I say I never seen such a cool looking and well built keyboard, the colors and feel of the keys is impressive. This was a great project for me and my son, and the result was a screaming fast new computer which he loves, and was allot cheaper than buying complete from a regular vendor! Total cost was around 1400.00 if I remember right. [email protected] - MSI ATX DDR3 2600 LGA 1150 Motherboards Z97 - Samsung 840 EVO 500GB 2.5-Inch SATA III Internal SSD (MZ-7TE500BW) - Intel Core i5-4690K Processor 3.5 GHz LGA 1150 BX80646I54690K (Core multiplier is UNLOCKED for overclocking!) includes nice fan that seems to be cooling the CPU fine looking at the operating temps in the BIOS - MSI Computer Corp. AMD Radeon R9 290 Gaming OC 4GB GDDR5 2DVI/HDMI/Display Port PCI-Express Video Card R9 290 GAMING 4G - AMD Radeon Memory R9 Gamer Series Memory 8GB (2x4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 2400 (PC3 19200) R938G2401U1K - new Corsair 750 Watt Power Supply (new modular style - came with all the power cords needed for the new system and graphics card) - new HP 16x DVD/CD RW Drive (I had to get a new one with new style power connector and SATA bus (all my old optical drives were IDE bus) - Razer Black Widow Chroma click Mechanical Gaming Keyboard - Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound 3.5 Grams for mounting the fan on the CPU

I recently purchased the I5-4690k for my first rig, which was also a budget build. I read over countless reviews such as this one and finally selected this CPU for my maiden voyage in rig building. See, I wanted something that could perform really well right now, and for some time to come with little quality loss. Everything pointed me here. Quad core, and as it turns out, the K series of Intel chips are specially for overclocking. Now, I haven't had to OC yet, so I can't speak of that, but I have this paired with a Gigabyte GTX 1050 Ti Oc, and they are performing superbly for me. Its crushing everything thrown at it at max with low temps & 60fps plus. Overall I think this is a perfect budget CPU, partner it with an aftermarket cooler & nice GPU, and you are set.

To start this off, I had a laptop about 6 months ago and decided to ditch the laptop and go desktop. I'm am a heavy PC gamer and I decided to use this CPU for my next PC build. And its puts a good fight to its bigger brother the 4770k. While the difference isn't much you can overclock this CPU and you will pretty much have a 4770k (Minus the Hyper threading). I had mine clocked at the base speeds with a H105 CPU cooler and it worked like a charm. But like any other PC gamer I felt I need more power. So I overclocked it! And its a great overclocker! I now have mine overclocked at 4.4GHz and the temps are staying well under the max. The highest temps it hits is about 78c under full load. And never any higher. And the idle temps are about 26c. All in all I use this CPU for heavy gaming and Photoshop use and it actually does very well. If your looking for a cheaper alternative than buying a i7 then this CPU would be great for you. It does for me very well (Even at stock speeds)

I'm a power user, but I'm certainly not a hardcore tech junkie. I'm going to put this in terms that are easy to understand and approachable for people who are more casual than engineers. The Good: Came in a neat and frustration-free package. Like every Intel chip ever, it's made with a precision that defies belief. Heavy and solid feeling, with no visible manufacturing defects or lines. The i5-4690 is basically a second-gen architecture as of the time of this writing, using the most current of techniques, so it strikes a nice balance. Anecdotally, it performs better than the i7 series in some regards though it doesn't compete in terms of raw power under the hood. It handles overclocking very well; I'm currently OC'd at about 30% over stock, and while I've been able to push it to 4.7 or 4.8 ghz, that's when it starts to come off the rails for me a bit. It's been very stable at 4.6ghz for me and my water-cooled system with 3 radiators keeps it at a balmy 40c under full load. PerformanceTest rated this under load's CPU Mark as slightly better than an i7-3720, though well below the 5820K, with a total result of 9658. The Bad: Not so much a bad as a limitation, over 4.6 ghz this CPU is prone to load errors and starts crashing unexpectedly. Improvements: Way outside of my baliwick, so no improvements to mention. TL;DR: A bit better than an i7 in a select few fields, though not as powerful overall; still, it overclocks like a champ and the price is well worth bumping down from the i7 for anything less than the most demanding of performance hunters, and it's very OC friendly.

I recently built a new gaming machine, and decided to save myself the price of good DDR4 and opted to go with a haswell-based CPU, as to be able to continue using the DDR3 from my previous build. I'll list off my previous build's specs first, built in 2014 on a strict budget: -AMD fx6300 -GTX 750ti -8 GB corsair vengence -750w Rosewill PSU -970A MSI Board -250 GB Samsung EVO ssd This rig ran well for me for awhile, but I noticed on even less demanding titles I had to compromise in terms of settings. So, this year with a slightly more beefy budget, I jumped to team blue, and don't plan on looking back unless ZEN can really blow me away. Current rig: -i5 4690K -GTX 1060, 6GB Asus Turbo edition -8GB DDR3 -z97 MSI motherboard -250 GB Samsong EVO SSD -1 TB Seagate drive for additional storage Boy, to say I was blown away by the upgrade would be an understatement. The 4690K overclocks beautifully, and even at stock far outperforms my previous set-up. Doom on max settings runs buttery smooth, and while I'm aware that that's much more GPU dependent, the 4690K plays a big part in those playable framerates, for which I'm thankful. That being said, for most people I'd recommend the 6600K, this CPU's skylake counterpart. However if you're upgrading a haswell set-up, or simply wanna avoid the cost of DDR4, this CPU is the king of price/performence.